Arp

8 mentions in 5 episodes.

Air

20:18 · Solina · named · high confidence

“I heard a melody, got off the couch and played it on the Solina. The Solina String Ensemble is an amazing keyboard.”

The melodic seed of Sexy Boy was played on a Solina String Ensemble, which he calls the purest string sound ever made.

54:44 · Solina · named · high confidence

“And then the Solina as usual... the most pure string sound you can ever find, ever. Even not a synth could do that.”

The Solina string machine sits under Talisman as it does across Moon Safari, praised as unbeatable for strings.

1:50:08 · ARP 2600 · named · high confidence

“And then you need a modular synth like the ARP 2600.”

The ARP 2600 completes his four essential synths as the semi-modular option.

1:50:11 · Solina · named · high confidence

“You also need a Solina for the pads, but I don't use it anymore because each time I use a Solina, it sounds like an Air track.”

He rates the Solina as the essential pad machine but avoids it now because it instantly sounds like Air.

58:33 · Solina · named · medium confidence

“And this is just the kitchen sink. Flutes. Solina strings. All these snare trails are going on.”

A Solina string ensemble is part of the kitchen-sink build into the Call Me After Midnight bridge.

1:00:09 · ARP Pro/DGX · named · medium confidence

“It's called a Pro DGX… it's a preset arp, so you only have a few choices of sounds, but they all are so good. And there's a tuba sound.”

A preset ARP Pro/DGX supplies the faux-tuba line that listeners mistake for a real tuba on 'Charlie's Garden'.

1:00:56 · ARP 2600 · named · high confidence

“I bought this synthesizer, the Korg ARP 2600, which is the most complicated piece of equipment I've ever owned.”

Rob got one Talking Heads-style pitch-bend sound out of his ARP 2600 for the 'Cruel World' chorus before selling the synth.

25:43 · ARP 2600 · named · medium confidence

“That feels like such a Kasabian signature, sort of out of tune 2600. It's sort of not quite in tune.”

The lead synth in the build of 'Call' is an ARP 2600 played slightly out of tune, which Serge calls a Kasabian signature sound.